The Global Call for Climate Action

About Forecast the Facts

According to a recent national survey, more than half of TV weather reporters don’t believe in human-induced climate change. Meanwhile, their viewers are facing unprecedented, climate-change induced heat waves, droughts, and flooding. We need our TV meteorologists to report the facts about climate change. Join the campaign.

On the one year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy, affected communities are demanding that action to reduce climate pollution and adapt to future Sandy-like storms remain top priorities of decision-makers.

Join Forecast the Facts members for “Turning The Tide: Carbon Divestment for a Post-Sandy Wall Street,” a panel discussion to mark Superstorm Sandy’s one-year anniversary and to discuss and organize around Wall Street’s role in climate pollution.

Producing natural gas by fracking on US public lands isn’t the clean energy solution we need: it puts these beautiful places at risk for water contamination as it also drains limited water supplies. Plus, as a potent greenhouse gas that leaks into the air during extraction and processing, it’s hardly the climate-friendly fuel we should be founding our energy future upon. Until August 23rd, you can add your voice to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) plans to frack on 600 million acres of public lands.

We’re pleased to share a short interview with Brad Johnson, Campaign Director of one of our newest partners – the US-based organization Forecast the Facts. Read on to learn more about their creative approach to calling out climate skeptics, meteorologists and bought-and-paid-for politicians.

There is no challenge too daunting and no industry too powerful to stop the climate movement from fighting for a better future. Whether they’re bringing together 5,000 people against the Tar Sands in Canada or 50 people against climate silence in Washington, they’re fearless and unstoppable. And they’ve had quite a week.

This week in Boston, US broadcast meteorologists will meet in their yearly conferencesponsored by the American Meteorological Society. From the point of view of the planet, it’s the most important meeting of weather reporters in history. Because the burning question is whether weathercasters will embrace their responsibility to communicate how climate change is creating a new normal of dangerous, extreme weather.

In recent years, the world’s scientists have begun to show that climate change is altering the magnitude and frequency of severe weather, and polls say a majority of Americans now link droughts, floods and other extremes to global warming.